Well... revenge can come from all different sorts of incidents. So I'm not sure if we can slap type labels on them. I think different types are less liable to react to certain experiences, if that makes sense.
I think control types (J) do often hate losing control and are tempted to regain it and retaliate upon the offender, to make sure it doesn't happen again. Yet when certain P types become angry (I am thinking ExFP for example), they are very prone to wanting to "get back" at someone or just vent all over them; I know my son gets REALLY upset and wants to express his anger physically and vocally (he will run in his room, slam the door, and then we hear him screaming unintelligible commentary about the person he's mad at).
I wanted to categorize by J/P and can't, because then I think of my father who is ESTP... and yet for HIM, he will get revenge on people who hurt him years before. The wound festers in him, and he'll let it drive all further interactions with those people, and he'll go out of his way to needle them. So P is obviously not a clear-cut indicator of short-term versus long-term grudges.
As another example, ISFJ women take things very personally and can be prone to petty acts of revenge -- whether it's spreading gossip, or undermining someone who has really betrayed/hurt them, or just throwing out things belonging to the offender and other forms of passive-aggression (and occasional aggression -- like Mary Winkler finally allowing her anger to build up enough to shoot her husband in the back last year). But I do not think we can easily categorize out from that...
I know I am not much for revenge as an INTP with strong Feeling sides and intuition. It just feels so... petty and transient, not something of long-term importance. I'd much rather fix and maintain the connection, than damage it further. I can laugh at petty acts of revenge because I still understand what would piss someone off and anticipate it, but... as far as me doing it, it just seems so counter-productive and unnecessary. So I don't usually go that way.
But I've seen other "harder" INTP types who have been slighted seemingly go after the people who have offended them, usually trying to undermine them or their authority. So INTP is not a fail-safe either. (Usually having their intellectual sensibilities or autonomy violated consistently by an authority, or having too many emotional demands relentlessly placed on them by someone they cannot separate from, is what drives an INTP to revenge-style behavior.)
I think each type has certain things that violate them and might drive the retaliation/revenge instinct... and they then tend to gravitate towards certain forms of revenge.
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